Breaking every expectation it was having, Venom, has broken pandemic records with 90.1 million dollars domestically.
The box office finally seems to be back, at the very least for big name movies that people are excited about.
Well, typically a blockbuster movie makes the vast majority of it's money in the first three weekends, so I understand it with everyone moving to streaming. Everyone has a streaming service pretty much and they all want to get their movies on their service fast.Which is why it makes no sense to me that the studios are still working to shrink the theatrical window more and more.
In what might be the first win for Disney/Sony on Marvel projects, No Way Home is seemingly poised to be the first Marvel film to break through China.
‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ Likely First Phase Four Marvel Film to Hit China
'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Chinese poster signals it may be the first MCU Phase Four film to pass government approvals to enter China.variety.com
This is absolutely hilarious in how off base he is.
Disney has been dropping a lot of Fox movies in theaters with very little marketing to minimize the expected loss that the movies will take on during this Covid-era. They marketed Free Guy heavily since they actually believed in it, but they haven't truly believed in most of the Fox movies on their slate enough to give them a good marketing push.- The marketing (In many cases, lack of.). Personally, for me, I don't recall seeing very many ads for this. An I'm noticing a ton of comments of folks who really didn't hear about this film until this very article!
So, theaters are canceling showings of Nightmare Alley in order to show more Spider-Man.
Looks like that film should have gone straight to streaming…>
Nightmare Alley was thought to be an awards contender by Disney, thus it needed at least a limited theatrical run. But opening against Spider-Man was NOT the move.
It should've opened in New York and LA in November to get it eligibility for any awards hopes they thought it had and then debut the movie on Hulu during the first weekend of December, when the only movies playing in theaters were holdovers and it was a really slow time. The movie at least would've gotten some attention as opposed to now.Its also a remake of a fantastic film from 1947....Disney scheduled two remakes of films one week apart
I do also think that there was some logic to getting the movie in theaters before No Way Home (obviously they hoped for a higher opening) so that West Side Story could play as counter-programming to NWH, given that this was the most amount of people that have been in theaters all at once since the same weekend back in 2019 back when The Rise of Skywalker opened. NWH had a much higher opening than I think anyone thought was possible just a few weeks ago even though, and thus screenings for WSS were pulled to add more room for NWH given those showings were selling out and WSS was playing to empty theaters.Disney wanted to get a week's run in IMAX theaters... and then wait for Christmas and award season to (hopefully) pick up some steam.
I kinda think it’d be best if Scream was either pushed back or given a PVOD release along with hitting Paramount+ 30 days later.
I’ve been to a theater quite a few times in the past few months. I think five in total. I’ve seen Free Guy, Eternals (and I fell asleep during that showing), and No Way Home 3x. If you count the movies I saw in the movie theater on my Disney cruise, then it’s eight times I’ve been to a movie theater in the past few months. You have to add Jungle Cruise, Shang-Chi, and a second viewing of Eternals.I’m hoping for this outcome as well, I have no desire right now to sit in a movie theater (and still haven’t been to the movies since before the pandemic) so, for me, I’d really love to see Scream get a PVOD &/or Paramount+ release.
I’ve been to a theater quite a few times in the past few months. I think five in total. I’ve seen Free Guy, Eternals (and I fell asleep during that showing), and No Way Home 3x. If you count the movies I saw in the movie theater on my Disney cruise, then it’s eight times I’ve been to a movie theater in the past few months. You have to add Jungle Cruise, Shang-Chi, and a second viewing of Eternals.
Some of the NWH showings were a little dicey, but I guess I’ve felt comfortable enough around people since I have 3 doses. I mean, hell, I went on two cruises last year and to multiple sold out MLB Playoff games, so I haven’t exactly been staying away from people.